What Does 1 Kings 9:24 Mean in the King James?

But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

1 Kings 9:24 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The same Hebrew root builds her house and Millo, tying a private dwelling to the city’s structure as two scales of making a place.

THE MEANING

The verse holds her dwelling beside Millo and repeats the verb “build” for both. You see private shelter and public structure as two scales of making a place. Millo’s name adds the image of a filling or filled place.

THE ROOT

בָּנָה

bānāh

GROWS FROM

בנה

b-n-h

Build, establish, bring a structure into being.

“built” in this verse is bānāh. ⁨בָּנָה⁩ (bānāh, build) is repeated: Solomon builds a house for her, then builds Millo. Its branch ⁨בֵּן⁩ (bēn, son) carries the root’s image of building into the formation of a household, while ⁨בִּנְיָן⁩ (binyān, building or structure) names what that work produces.

ALSO GROWS

bēn: Son

בֵּן

The related word carries building into the formation and continuation of a household.

binyān: Building, structure

בִּנְיָן

It names the made form that the repeated verb ⁨בָּנָה⁩ (bānāh, build) brings into being here.

מִלּוֹא

millōʾ

GROWS FROM

מלא

m-l-ʾ

Fill, be full.

The name ⁨מִלּוֹא⁩ (millōʾ, Millo) is linked to ⁨מלא⁩ (m-l-ʾ, fill). It suggests a filled place or structure, though this verse does not specify its precise form.

ALSO GROWS

mālēʾ: Full

מָלֵא

It makes fullness part of the word family behind Millo’s name.

millēʾ: Fill

מִלֵּא

It presents filling as an action, extending the image of a made place beyond its construction.

THE PATTERN

Building gives form to both a household and the wider place where people dwell.

A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Psalm 127:1 · KJVThe verse joins the building of a house with the keeping of a city, echoing the movement from private dwelling to public structure.

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

Proverbs 24:3 · KJVA house takes shape through building and becomes established, as the dwelling does in the current verse.

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

Matthew 7:24 · KJVThe image of a house built on a foundation carries the pattern of dwelling as something formed through construction.

THE THREAD

A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Psalm 127:1 · KJV

Both verses use ⁨בנה⁩ (b-n-h, build): here it joins her house to Millo, and in Psalm 127:1 it joins a house to the city. Together they let “building” stretch from one person’s dwelling to the wider inhabited place.

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